The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

but it can't play much ball The untutored saw
age can't get over the notion that over the fence
is out
THE RABBITS are eating out the ranchers in
Steptoe valley, White Pine county, Nevada. At
night they come in whole armies and devour tie
growing crop.
A TEXAS paper reports a case in which an
Austin jury fined drug clerk $50 and costs,
amounting in all to 81 70, for selling package
of cigarettes on Sunday.
THE sect of "SoulSleepers," in Jefferson
county Indiana, have a 1O-year-old boy, Pascal
Porter, for preacher He is said 10 lead ms con-
gregation with eloquent earnestneSS
WATER is so scarce in some parts of Northern
Illinois that rabbits and coons boldly come up
to the farnyard watering trough to get drink
Many of these wild animals, by their frequent
visits, appear TO have lost all their fear OF men
A NURSERY carriage furnished like toy shop
is fitted up for the baby King of Spain, and IS
to serve him on his way to and from the seaside
in Biscay. The King of SPANS traveling ntlr
sery library is brightly pictorial, and the images
and words are stamped on linen.
FRANK PURDY and David Sherman, two Indian
printer boys at the Genoa (Neb.) Indian school,
are trying to raise $3.50 for small printing out
fit with which to issue paper from that school,
called the Pipe of Peace. Their subscription Is
Endorsed by the superintendent OF the schooi'
HILLS SMITH, of Niles, Mich, received by ex-
press from his brother, Frank E. Smith of East
Oakland Cal the rib bone of some extinct ami
NAL. The size of the animal that wore it may
be guessed at from the fact that the RIB IS elghG
feet in length and three inches IN diameter.
A SUCKING COLT at Salem, Ore, got separated
from its mother, and, becoming frightened,
started to run back and forth in lane. 1t con,
tinued to run until it became entirely exhausted
and fell on its side 1t is reported that after 1t
lay moment in that position its eyes popped
entirely out of its head" 1t had to be killed
GEORGE NJ PULLMAN, of the Pullman Car Com
pany, proposes to introduce here the system
now in vogue in one or two of the English rail
road lines of storing electricity for the lighting
of the cars from the friction of the car wheels.
He has brought an expert over, who Will soon
set to work on q series OF experiments at the
shops at Pullman, Ill.
THE splendid fountains and jets d'eau which
the late King of Bavaria erected at his noun
tain castles are to be demolished, as it costs
$500 year to keep them going-a charge
which the Bavarian civil list cannot afford. The
finest are at Herren Chiemsee, which is proba-
bly, the most magnificent country seat In Eu-
rope, and they are far superior to the famous
fountains at herrenhausen, near Hanover.
The Berlin BorSen- Courier learns that En-
peror William has informed the jury of the
Berlin Art Exhibition that he does not object to
the subject OF Fraulein Hermine Won Preu-
Schen's striking picture, 'Mors lmperator
representing death as upsetting throne
which was rejected mainly from considerations
for the feelings of the court. 1t is, therefore,
likely that the much-talked of painting will be
exhibited after all.
A PROMINENT MERCHANT of Tekonsha, Mich,
suffered a strange alteration of mind Saturday.
From the time he arose until afternoon he knew
absolutely nothing that was transporting about
him, although around the store and trying to
do business. He could not tell the prices of the
most common articles of merchandise, and
foil ad 70 hat a
years. declaring that he did not know them. He
has since recovered his normal condition.
JASPER BRYAN, a farmer near Marshalltown,
Ia, went in search of a little pig which was
missing. He found it in a swamp, where it had
been swallowed by a huge snake 1t had &C
tualy kicked its feet through the belly of the
snake and was walking about trying to find its
way out of the woods, with its head still inclosed
in the lower part of the snakes body The
snake was promptly killed, and found to contain
sixteen rattleS. The pig was carried home, and
is doing well.
THERE is a bulldog in Norwich, Conn, which,
although muzzled manages to bite other dogs.
When he gets ready for business he slips his
muzze off his nose and casts it round near his
ears and goes in, and when the conflict is over
he slips it back with his paw, replaces his nose
in the loop and trotS along so demurely that no
one would dream that he ever had a cunning
thought in his Uranium Since his trick has
been discovered he has felt harder pressure on
not think life is worth living
THERE are now cables on almost every sea and
ocean bed, the total length of wire laid being
nearly $4,000 nautical miles. There are nine
cables connecting Europe with America, the
first that was laid dating from 1858. So great,
also has the advance been in the operative as
pect of cable telegraphy that practically no
more difficulty is felt in repairing submarine
lines than in attending to defects in those on
land. IL is seldom any serious arrangement of
the telegraphic system takes place. When it
does, it is of comparatively brief duration.
DREADFUL story is told of Gillian of Los
Andes. He had a grudge against a neighbor,
and, when the small pox recently appeared in
the province, he obtained a number of dried
plstuleS and put them inside plug of tobacco,
which he placed where the people he hated
were likely to see it. The neighbors found it,
made cigarettes from it, and smoked them
few days afterward smallpox broke out in
the house sand with such vrulence that no one
of the family escaped. The tiend was attacked
with the disease q few days afterward and died,
after confessing his crime.
AT the meeting of the National Association
for the Promotion of Holiness, held in Pitman
Grove Pa the other day, Dr.. William Nc
Donald said Il tell you that no one who uses
tobacco can be entirely sanctified." Say say!'
shouted several clergymen, that's going little
too far, for some of our best ministers use the
article What have said have said,' re-
piled Mr.. Mcdonald: No man can be entirely
Saved and use tobacco" You're q liar!'
angrily shouted well known man in the audi
ence. The man, who is said to be an influential
Christian, Immediately left the auditorium.
A HALF-GRowN CHICKEN in Richmond No. got
into an alteration with grass snake IS inches
long. The chicken pecked away at the snake
furiously for few moments, and then gather
ing the head of his snakeship in his mouth
essayed to swallow him whole. But the snake
was not quite ready to perform the Jonah act
and obstinately refused to go down. Finding
| he could not swallow the snake, which had
tightly curled its tail around his bill the chicken
managed to throw 1t up, when, after pecking at
| it few more times, he made a second and sue
| cessful effort, and his SuakeShip disappeared
| down the chickens throat.
Two DRovERs in Southwestern Missouri dis
covered huge snake, yellow and spotted, coiled
| into hump the size of bushel basket It's